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Both Metamorphoses and the Wife of Bath's stories are heavily focused on the sexual concepts, most of which are still just as relevant today as it was then. Sex You by Bando Jones is a perfect theme song for certain sections of "Metamorphoses". This song basically voices the thoughts that Apollo had about Daphne. His extreme lust for her is basically written out throughout the lyrics of this song. This song also basically spells out the thoughts that Jupiter had before raping Io. However, the song is more written about sex between consenting individuals, not forcing sex upon someone against their will. Even so, the basic concept still revolves around sex, similar to the stories.

As for the Wife of Bath's, the song that  I associate with the story is Promiscuous by Nelly Furtando. In the story, she argues a strong case about women and sexuality. She talks about Christ and asks "where did he command virginity?" (28). She begins to sound like a feminist, defending a woman's right to be a little promiscuous. Though in her case, being promiscuous is less of sleeping around with multiple men and more of pushing society to accept the thought of being married more than once. As for the knight, once again, Sex You by Bando Jones describes him perfectly. King Arthur's "lusty young knight" (35) is the epitome of most music made today. Lust is an emotion that's been around throughout the years and will always be alive.

Humans are sexual beings. Both of these stories play on that human emotion or behavior and create stories that people, even of different generations, can understand or relate to it. Even our music today relates to the stories from times before it.